Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Hall, Jane.
Learn to Read With Phonics DVD: Vol 1: Letters and Words
(Good Times Entertainment, 1991).
Vol 1: Letters and Words. Jane Hall and Tom Kroutil. DVD. DVD. Good condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-A15858
Keywords: 0018713512888, children, learning to read, phonics, Good Times Entertainment, Jane Hall, Tom Kroutil, child, education
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Lovett, Richard.
James Chalmers: His Autobiography and Letters
(The Religious Tract Society, fourth edit., 1903).
With two maps and eight portraits and illustrations. Hardback. Edges slightly worn, corners and spine ends bent, small splash on front board, otherwise good. 511pp. Order No. NSBK-A5754
Keywords: B00087LEZ0, James Chalmers, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, autobiographical, Richard Lovett, Christian, Christianity, religion, religious, missionary, missionaries, missions, Rarotonga, New Guinea, Hervey Group, Suau, Namau, London Missionary Society, cannibals, canniblism, Motumoto, Dopima, the Fly River, Victorian, nineteenth century
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Lazreg, Marnia.
Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
(Princeton UP, 2009).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-C15690
Keywords: 9780691138183, muslim, islam, women, the veil
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Jenkins, T. A. ed.
The Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny, 1858-1865:
(Royal Historical Society, 1990).
Camden Fourth Series, Volume 40. Hardback. Cloth slightly soiled, otherwise good. 349pp. Order No. NSBK-A8086
Keywords: 0861931254, diaries, Parliamentary, Sir John Trelawney, letters, nineteenth century, 19th, history, Britain, British, England, English
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Pottle, Frederick, ed.
Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764: Including his Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zelide)
(William Heinemann, 1952).
Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good in badly torn and worn dustrapper. xix + 428pp. Order No. NSBK-A12530
Keywords: B0000CI8BW, eighteenth century, 18th, James Boswell, letters, epistles, episolary, Zelide, Belle de Zuylen
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Malins, Edward.
Samuel Palmer's Italian Honeymoon:
(OUP, 1968).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. xiii + 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A3625
Keywords: 0192111884, Samuel Palmer, honeymoon, art, Victorian, Italy, Italian, Rome, Naples, John Linnell, Hannah Linnell, history, letters, etchings
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Squire, Rose E.
Thirty Years in the Public Service: An Industrial Retrospect
(Nisbet and Co., 1927).
With a foreword by Sir Edward Troup. Hardback. Good+ in worn and rubbed boards. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A15550
Keywords: Britain, Britishm history, Rose E. Squire, industry, industrial, autobiography, letters, self-history, autobiographical, memoir, public service, civil seervice factory inspectors, female factory inspectors, women's history, woman, women factory inspectors, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, B000865E84, industry, industrial
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
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Sampson, William R.
John McLoughlin's Business Correspondence, 1847-48:
(Univ of Washington Press, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn / chipped dustwrapper. li +179pp. Order No. NSBK-A3698
Keywords: 0295952997, John McLoughlin, business, economic, history, America, American, United States, USA, Oregon, Columbia Department, Hudson's Bay Company, letters, correspondence, shipping, commercial, Victorian, sea, businessman, immigrants
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